Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 1:9:

• Kupsabiny: “That ruler told his people that, ‘Behold, these Israelites have produced themselves and increased a lot! They are so many and they have gained strength so that they have threatened us.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “He said to his people, ‘Look, Israelites have become more than us. They are being mighty (strong).” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “He said to his people, ‘[You (plur.)] look-(around)! The Israelinhon (are) now very many, so our (incl.) situation (is) now dangerous.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “And so he spoke to his people like this, ‘Yo, the Israel people became numerous, and their great strength surpasses us (incl.) very much.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “Therefore, he said to his people «Look!, people of Israel are greater than us (incl.) with number, and they be strong be greater than us (incl.).” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “He said to his people, ‘Look at what has happened! The Israeli people have become so numerous and so powerful that they now might conquer us!” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 1:10:

• Kupsabiny: “If we do not become clever, they may become many and unite with our enemies making an alliance against us and then leave this land/country going their way.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Thus, we should deal with them intelligently. Otherwise, they will become more in number. During war joining with our enemies they will come to fight against us and will go leaving the country.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “For perhaps/maybe in time of war they will-take-sides with our (incl.) enemies and will-oppose/go-against us (incl.), and then they will-be-able-to-flee from our (incl.) country/nation. So we (incl.) will-search-for/(Let- us -search-for) a good way that they will- no-longer -become- even -more-numerous.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “And if some fight happened, then they will join together with our (incl.) enemies and so make a fight against us. [If] it’s like that then they’ll leave our area and go. But we must follow good knowledge and so search for a way to prevent them, in order that they not become numerous any more.’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “come! let us (incl.) seek a way which they not again will increase, that they might not be united with enemies our (incl.) on day which war will come, that they might not out flee from country our (incl.).»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “We must find a way to control them! If we do not do that, their population will continue to grow. Then, if enemies attack us, they will join with our enemies and fight against us, and they will escape from our land.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 1:11:

• Kupsabiny: “So, the Egyptians made the Israelites to be their slaves. People to be in charge of these people were chosen and they were given to do very hard work/task. It was done like so that their stomachs may die (become discouraged). They were given the work of building for that ruler two cities: Pithom and Rameses for storing things.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Therefore, the Egyptians sent taskmasters giving them hard work (tasks) to torture them. They built two cities called Pithom and Ramses for Pharaoh as storage places.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Therefore they put-as-rulers-over the Israelinhon people/men who oppressed and made- them -work very hard. [They] had- them -make the towns of Pitom and Rameses as a place-to-put the storehouses of the king of Egypt.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “Therefore the Isip people appointed work leaders in order to make the Israel people toil and they dealt very harshly (lit. did very heavily) to them. They talked strong to the Israel people and so they made two great villages, Pitom and Rameses, for gathering the great chief’s food and other things.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “Therefore, he put for them chiefs of work, that they might go make them do that which be hard. Therefore, cities two which they call Pithom and Ramses, which have grain silo many, they made it for king of Egypt.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “So the king and his officials put supervisors over the Israeli people to cause them to suffer very much by forcing them to work very hard. They forced the Israeli people to build two cities, Pithom and Ramses, in which to store supplies for the king/government.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 1:12:

• Kupsabiny: “Although the Egyptians tortured the Israelites, the Israelites continued to prosper much spreading in that land. Those things made the Egyptians to fear the Israelites very much.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “However, the more they tortured Israelites the more their number increased. They filled in many places. Therefore seeing Israelites, they feared too much.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But while they were-being-oppressed again-again/[lit. being-oppressed being-oppressed], the more they in-fact kept-increasing, and they even spread-(out) within Egipto. So the Egiptohanon became- even more -afraid of them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “The Isip people were strong in making the Israel people toil, but the Israel people were strong and so were becoming more numerous. Therefore the Isip people were afraid of the Israel people” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “But, when they were adding work of people of Israel, people of Israel were adding births their, and ground their was growing. And [body] fear people of Egypt very about people of Israel.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “But the more cruelly they treated the Israeli people, the bigger the Israeli population grew, and they became more numerous all over the land. So the Egyptian people began to be afraid of the Israeli people.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 1:13:

• Kupsabiny: “So, the Egyptians really punished/inflicted pain on those Israelites. They gave them to be doing a hard task/work of building and digging their farms without mercy!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Moreover, without mercy they gave them even harder work to do.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Because of this, they increased even more of their cruelty in enslaving the Israelinhon.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “and so they made them continue endlessly in work, and they weren’t sorry for them.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “So they made people of Israel with force doing things, not resting.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “They forced the Israeli people to work very hard,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 1:14:

• Kupsabiny: “So, the Egyptians really punished/inflicted pain on those Israelites. They gave them to be doing a hard task/work of building and digging their farms without mercy!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “They filled their lives with sorrow by making them knead mud, make brick, and do hard work in the field.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They did- not -have any compassion/mercy upon the Israelinhon. They made- them really -work-hard by-means-of having- them -work with bricks and for-cement. And they had- them -work very-hard in the field(s).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “The Isip people made the life of the Israel people bad with difficult work. They kept giving them work to mix earth to become hard and so they made it into houses, and they were doing various kinds of work in the garden also. The Isip people weren’t sorry for the Israel people. They made them toil very badly.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “They ruined lives their with work hard. They made them they mix soil, make bricks, cut field their. This work all, they make them they do it without resting.” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “and by making them slaves, they made their lives miserable. They forced them to build many buildings with mortar and bricks. They also forced them to do other work in the fields. In making them do all this work, the Egyptian officials treated them ruthlessly/cruelly.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 1:15:

• Kupsabiny: “There were in those day two women of Israel who were helping women when giving birth (midwives). One was called Shiphrah and the other Puah.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Pharaoh of Egypt calling to Hebrew midwives named Shiphrah and Puah said,” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Then the king of Egipto said to the Hebrew/[Hebrohanon] midwives who (were) Shifra and Pua,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “And the great chief of the Isip people called two Ibru women, Sipra and Pua, to come to him. The two of them had work in helping the Ibru woman in childbirth.” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “During that time, there were women two who were named Shiphrah and Puah, who were helping women of Hebrew children birth. And king of Egypt said to them” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “There were two Hebrew midwives/women who helped the women when they were giving birth. [Hebrew means the same as Israeli.] The names of the women were Shiphrah and Puah. The king of Egypt said to those two women,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Exodus 1:16:

• Kupsabiny: “That king one day told those midwives that, ‘When you are helping these women of the Israelites during birth, strangle/kill the boys and leave the girls.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “‘During Hebrew women’s childbirth when you go to serve, if a son is born you are to kill him, if a daughter is born do not kill her.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘In your helping- the Hebrew women -to-give-birth, [you (plur.)] kill the child if (it is) a male/(boy), but if (it is) a female/(girl), do- not -kill-(her).’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Bariai: “And so he spoke to the two of them like this, ‘Always when the two of you help the Ibru women in childbirth, and then see that they bear a male child, strike him dead. But it they bear a female child, leave her so that she stays [well].’” (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Opo: “«When you are helping women of Hebrew children birth, when child is descending down, you look at it body. When it be male, you kill it. When it be girl, leave it that it might live.»” (Source: Opo Back Translation)
• English: “‘When you help the Hebrew women when they are giving birth , if the baby that is born is a boy, you must kill it. If the baby is a girl, you may let it live/do not have to kill them.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)